1-1  By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1479
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 21, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to deductions from the compensation of county employees
    1-9  for payment to a credit union.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 155.001, Local Government Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 155.001.  DEDUCTIONS AUTHORIZED IN COUNTIES <WITH 20,000
   1-14  OR MORE INHABITANTS>; PURPOSES.  (a)  The commissioners court, on
   1-15  the request of a county employee, may authorize a payroll deduction
   1-16  to be made from the employee's wages or salary for payment to a
   1-17  credit union.
   1-18        (b)  In a county with a population of 20,000 or more
   1-19  <inhabitants>, the commissioners court, on the request of a county
   1-20  employee, may authorize a payroll deduction to be made from the
   1-21  employee's wages or salary for:
   1-22              (1)  <payment to a credit union;>
   1-23              <(2)>  payment of membership dues in a labor union or a
   1-24  bona fide employees association; or
   1-25              (2) <(3)>  payment of fees for parking in a
   1-26  county-owned facility.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  The heading to Subchapter A, Chapter 155, Local
   1-28  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-29           SUBCHAPTER A.  AUTHORIZED DEDUCTIONS FOR COUNTIES
   1-30              <IN COUNTY WITH 20,000 OR MORE INHABITANTS>
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-36  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-37  passage, and it is so enacted.
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